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Apr 10, 2023Liked by Kim O'Donnel

Beautiful!

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Love this and these photos!

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beautiful! we were c&e catholics and i always had an easter dress :)

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awww... huggable little ones. I can hear you now, disciplining those rambunctious boys, warning them that they're about to mess up their Easter clothes.

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I do remember one year when John went out into the yard in his suit and came back with grass-stained knees...

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hahha! riiiiiight?! You were in the era of knee highs. I had to wear the little ankle socks with the lace around the tops and patent leather shoes with a strap - ewww... how I hated them.

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glazed with 7UP?!! Much else is familiar, poignantly, nauseatingly familiar including loving the chocolate rabbits more than Jesus. Happy Easter Monday Kim. xxx

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Right? As if we weren't high enough on sugar from the candy...hope you are well, Annie!

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My Canadian sister-in-law told me that her family used Vernor's ginger ale. We also got new outfits -- I think it was the only time I wore a hat! -- and posed by the same fence in the yard.

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Soda on meat definitely made the rounds. I'm pretty sure Easter was the only time I wore a bonnet.

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